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Event

Hana Yori Dango: Japanese Sweets Workshop

Date Saturday, March 8, 2015 10:00am - 12:00pm

Japanese sweets - dorayaki, dango, and daifuku

Event Overview

RESOBOX Japanese Cooking Workshop Series #4: Japanese Sweets Workshop

** Check out more of the workshops in this series here!
After this extremely cold and harsh winter, warm spring which will deliver beautiful flowers will come soon. In Japan, there is a proverb “Hana yori dango”, literally meaning “dumplings rather than flowers”. It refers to a preference for practical things rather than aesthetics. (Think of the English phrase, “Pudding before praise”.) As this proverb goes like this, Japanese sweets are delicious and take us captive!

In this workshop led by the instructor Asako Nonaka, you will learn how to cook 3 Japanese confectionaries; tofu mitarashi dango, dorayaki (Japanese red bean pancake), and strawberry daifuku so that you can cook them at home. Let’s enjoy cooking Japanese confectionaries and have a pleasant tea time together.

Workshop Agenda

  • Introduction to Workshop
  • Cooking Dorayaki, Tofu Mitarashi Dango, and Strawberry Daifuku
  • Tasting
Japanese sweets - dorayaki
Dorayaki, red bean paste in between two pancakes
Japanese sweets - strawberry daifuku
Strawberry daifuku, a glutinous rice cake stuffed with a strawberry and red bean paste
Japanese sweets - tofu mitarashi dango
Tofu mitarashi dango, glutinous rice balls with a sugary soy sauce syrup

Join the Facebook Group!

Become a member of the RESOBOX Japanese Cooking Facebook Group! Instructor Asako Nonaka will share class information, you can upload photos of your “homework assignments”, and interact with other students to get food inspiration every day! Anyone interested in RESOBOX’s cooking workshops is welcome to join!

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About the Instructor

Asako Nonaka

Japanese Nutrition Health Coach

Asako Nonaka is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach born in Tokyo, Japan in 1981. In 2012, she moved to New York. After graduating from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2014, she launched “Asakology” to introduce Japanese healthy food through blogging and holding cooking classes. She is also a health coach whose goal is to create a healthy and happy life for her students. Her other work with RESOBOX Gallery includes Handmade SOBA Workshop -Learn, Cook, and Eat SOBA- held on December 14, 2014.

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